Artist Mark Bennett has always had a fascination with fictional homes.

Often, when he watches a movie, he counts the number of steps a character takes inside a certain room, then approximates the room’s square footage. Afterwards, he puts it to paper, meticulously drawing fantasy architectural plans of the structure.

In 1992, he rented a tent and set up shop at Beverly Hills’ “Art in the Park,” displaying his drawings on sheets of cardboard,so passersby could flip through them like record albums. But that afternoon, a judge at the event shooed Bennett away.

She said, “‘That’s not art. Get them out of here … This is not a craft show,” he remembers. “So I didn’t put them out anymore. I put them under my bed and forgot about them.”

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Mark Moore Gallery
Sep 10 - Oct 29, 2016

Years later, he unearthed his old drawings and brought them to a Hollywood bar. A representative from the Mark Moore Gallery “came in to have a drink, turned around, and saw Mary Tyler Moore,” Bennett says. “Of course, it didn’t say ‘Mary Tyler Moore.’ It said ‘Mary Richards Apartment, Minneapolis, Minnesota.'”

Now, Bennett’s art has new life on the walls of the Mark Moore Gallery, paying the ultimate tribute to the timeless films, sitcoms and characters he admires.